flying RAF aircraft, and thus beyond the range of Oboe. The campaign had to depend upon straight navigation and H2S. Bomber Command's efforts against Berlin...

An oboe is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Oboe or OBOE may also refer to: Oboe (navigation), a World War II British aerial blind bombing...

distance from one of the Oboe stations to the target was measured and an arc of that radius drawn on a conventional navigation chart. For instance, for...

radio navigation system, still in use (US and Canadian operations terminated 2010). CHAYKA, the Russian counterpart of LORAN SHORAN Oboe (navigation) G-H...

concentrate its advanced navigational systems in the Pathfinder units. Most widely used were the H2S ground scanning radar and Oboe navigation system, the former...

accuracy of Oboe, but could be used by as many as 90 aircraft at once. This basic concept has formed the basis of most distance measuring navigation systems...

Lutterade, a small town in the Netherlands. Led entirely by the new Oboe navigation system, several bombs fell within 2 km of the target. The test was...

[specify] 3 Mosquitos. 27/28 December 1944 [specify] 7 Mosquitos on Oboe (navigation) trials (some flew over Kassel).[citation needed] 6/7 January 1945...

GEE, the early war RAF navigation system for night bombing Kammhuber Line List of World War II electronic warfare equipment Oboe, the December 1941-launched...

Aachen and Brest—the Brest attack was the first operational use of the Oboe navigation system 18 December: Blenheim aircraft conducted the first night intruder...

(radio navigation) Battle of the Beams CHAYKA GEE (navigation) G-H (navigation) Global positioning system LORAN Oboe (navigation) OMEGA Navigation System...

VOR-only station. The TACAN navigation system is an evolution of radio transponder navigation systems that date back to the British Oboe system of World War II...

Farm. The site later operated GEE (navigation) equipment. Sennen is listed as a location for an Oboe (navigation) site, and the RAF site can be assumed...

difference. Gee (navigation) Gee-H (navigation) Global Positioning System Local positioning system Oboe (navigation) Omega (navigation system), the Western...

similar to the earlier Oboe system. The navigator would first pick a station to be the "cat" signal, using it as the main navigation beacon. The range from...

poor in a raid on Berlin, which is beyond the range of the Gee and Oboe navigation aids. British bomber losses are small. Target indicator bombs are used...

Lieutenant Peter Romsey is an RAF navigator, involved with developing the Oboe navigation system; London urgently requires his safe return. Romsey is accompanied...

equipped with a CD Mk.4 radar. The station also operated as an Oboe Navigation Station. Oboe worked using two stations at different and well-separated locations...

Japanese-held British Borneo and Dutch Borneo. Designated collectively as Operation Oboe, a series of amphibious assaults between 1 May and 21 July 1945 were conducted...

receiver. The system operated on a principle similar to the British OBOE navigation system. An IFF signal was sent from a Freya, that had had its receiver...

the RAF had ever undertaken. It covered the RAF tactics of using the Oboe navigation system to guide its heavy bombers, and the use of the de Havilland...

Rowe, assisted by Alec Reeves, also led in the development of the Oboe navigation system and the ground-scanning H2S radar. In 1946, Rowe moved to Australia...

Group whose role was to guide the bombers to the target using the Oboe navigation system. The bombers were escorted by 13 British fighter squadrons and...

many radar and radio navigation systems. These included the development of portable radar systems, and both Gee and Oboe navigation systems. One particularly...

campaign the RAF used more sophisticated navigation aids; on the night of the 7/8 December 1941 the Oboe navigation aid was employed for the first time. Concerned...

Oboe could be jammed and suffer interference from Monica and other Bomber Command devices. Oboe Mk I operated on a frequency of 1.5 metres, K Oboe was...

and radar officer of the RAF Pathfinder Force, helped to develop the Oboe navigation system John Hedley Brooke, historian of science[citation needed] Dr...

Oboe could be jammed and suffer interference from Monica and other Bomber Command devices. Oboe Mk I operated on a frequency of 1.5 metres, K Oboe was...

with visual backup marking, from Newhaven, East Sussex. Oboe – British twin beam navigation system, similar to Knickebein but pulse-based. Parramatta...

Pathfinders were a provisional squadron equipped with the top-secret Pff (Oboe) navigational equipment. The Pathfinders would lead a group of 17 planes over the...